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Inventions + Initiatives to Protect Our Future
ART | FEATURE | ANAMATA / THE FUTURE Written & illustrated by Scarlett Robinson-Kean | @scarlett_k_illustrates | Contributor
Scarlett Robinson-Kean
Oct 20, 20251 min read


You Probably Won't Read This
FEATURE | ANAMATA / THE FUTURE Written by Elise Sadlier (she/her) | @elise_sadlier | Contributing Writer Rejection. I’ve never been good at it. I spent the summer on the couch, popsicle dripping down my wrist, refreshing Seek and offering up prayers. I had high hopes for the year. I saw each month stretched out before me, clean and full of potential. I fantasized about a working holiday in Bali, a cute gallery job, money flowing into my account. I was finally free from unive
Elise Sadlier
Oct 20, 20254 min read


Do It for You
FEATURE | HANGA / CRAFT Written by Joshua Black | Contributing Writer Illustration by Scarlett Kean | Contributing Illustrator As a...
Joshua Black
Oct 6, 20256 min read


Harvesting & Resurrecting: Ricky Lai on NZIFF 2025
FEATURE | REVIEW | HANGA / CRAFT Written by Ricky Lai (he/him) | @rickylaitheokperson | Contributing Writer ‘You need to be bigger, you need to be bolder, and you need to be everywhere’ , declared Kaine Thompson, Chair of the 2025 board of the Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival on its opening night in Tāmaki Makaurau. These words were their vision statement as accrued from the previous year’s feedback, and yet I, who couldn’t have been sizzling more with e
Ricky Lai
Oct 6, 20256 min read


Does ChatGPT Dream of Crochet Sheep?
FEATURE | HANGA / CRAFT Written by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Feature Editor It's the year 2025. Craft-Tok has been igniting...
Tashi Donnelly
Oct 6, 20255 min read


Weaving a Future: How an AUT Student Wove a Future from Strong Woll
FEATURE | HANGA / CRAFT Written by Rose Scott (she/her) | @aut_ventures | AUT Ventures When AUT design graduate student Jacob Smith...
Rose Scott
Oct 6, 20253 min read


Rekindling the Love of Filmmaking
FEATURE | HANGA / CRAFT Written by Tara Jade Bellairs (they/them) | @tara_bellairs_portfolio | Contributing Writer Illustration by...
Tara Jade Bellairs
Oct 6, 20254 min read


SHARE THIS IMAGE OR HE’LL BE IN YOUR ROOM AT 3 AM (NOT CLICKBAIT!!).
An ode to the urban legends of the internet and to the cringe teenagers who get it. FEATURE | PŪRĀKAU / MYTHOLOGY Written by Tahlia...
Tahlia Coward
Sep 22, 20254 min read


Top 5 Campus Cryptids: What They Study (and Do for Fun)
FEATURE | PŪRĀKAU / MYTHOLOGY Written by Stu Paul (he/him) | Contributing Writer Bigfoot An athlete since his youth, the basketball...
Stu Paul
Sep 22, 20253 min read


The Gods Trapped in My Uncle’s Paintings
FEATURE | PŪRĀKAU / MYTHOLOGY Written & illustrations by Maebh LEIGH McCurdy (she/her) | @leighapparently | Social Media Coordinator...
Maebh McCurdy
Sep 22, 20257 min read


Baddies o Te Ao
FEATURE | TE AO MĀORI | PŪRĀKAU / MYTHOLOGY Written by Elise Sadlier (she/her) | @elise_sadlier | Contributing Writer From cosmogony and...
Elise Sadlier
Sep 22, 20255 min read


Reviewing the Six NZIFF Cinema Venues of Tāmaki Makaurau for NZIFF 2025
FEATURE | REVIEWS | TANGATA WHENUA / LOCAL Written by Daniel Tang | Contributing Writer & Written by Caeden Tipler (they/them) |...
Daniel Tang & Caeden Tipler
Aug 18, 20258 min read


My AI Twin Review
REVIEW | FEATURE | TANGATA WHENUA / LOCAL Written by Madeline Bradley (she/her) | @shutupmads | Contributing Writer Artificial...
Madeline Bradley
Aug 18, 20252 min read


Western Line Gothic
FEATURE | TANGATA WHENUA / LOCAL Written by Athena Li-Watts (they/them) | @dreamyplum | Contributing Writer You approach the door. A...
Athena Li-Watts
Aug 18, 20253 min read


I count my Blessings (Ānei te tohu)
POETRY | FEATURE | TE AO MĀORI | TANGATA WHENUA / LOCAL Written by Elise Sadlier (she/her) | @elise.sadlier | Contributing Writer...
Elise Sadlier
Aug 18, 20251 min read
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